I don't really know.  I never bothered to look it up.

Back in 73/74 time frame, a company in St. Louis was getting rid of their old 
teletypes.  I seem to remember they were going to the newer teletype model 43 
??  Anyway, he pointed to the ones without paper tape, and said they were ASRs 
and pointed to the ones with paper tape and say they were KSRs.  I assumed he 
knew what he was talking about.  

But with the paper tape models there were 5 level (bodot?) and 8 level 
(something).  

The 110 baud modem, which weighed 40-50 pounds, was most of the stand it was 
on.  We hooked it into the phone system, which was illegal back then, and I 
could dial back into the mainframe (OS/VS 1 at that time) and use TSO.  

Printing out a listing on the teletype in my apartment was sure noisy.  

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

>>> "McKown, John" <[email protected]> 9/14/2011 1:16 PM >>>
I thought the paper tape TTYs were called ASR (Automatic Send Receive?) instead 
of KSR (Keyboard Send Receive). I remember using one back in high school at a 
special program at TCU in Ft. Worth. I was impressed. Not with the KSR, but 
with the professor who apologized for being late - he was trading in his 2 year 
old Rolls Royce for a new one.

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> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:43 PM
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: Re: excellent explanation of cloud computing....
> 
> And if you really wanted to keep a good backup, you used the 
> mylar tape.
> 
> I still have my Teletype 33 with paper tape unit (I think it 
> was a KSR model) along with supplies.
> I'm good to go when the rapture occurs!
> 
> Tom Duerbusch
> THD Consulting
> 
> >>> Paul Dembry <[email protected]> 9/14/2011 12:18 PM >>>
> Reminds me of the old days when I used a teletype and telephone modem,
> although back then I had a paper tape backup for my programs.
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